iPod or Sony MP3 player?

Originally Posted by wyrdness

The main advantage of the ipod, over all of the others, is the vast number of third party accessories available. You can get everything from cases and chargers through to car stereos and TVs with ipod docks.

+1 i have yet to see anything dock with my old sony, other than the dock they sold me for 50squids...

I love my Sandisk E280, its only gone flat once in a year, and it gets around ten minutes charge a week!

Steve

[KnightRider]

I have tried both and the Ipod is better. Itunes is a bit funky but I much prefer to use MediaMonkey (www.mediamonkey.com).

MediaMonkey is a great music player and it is particularly talented at organising and correcting music collections. It also has the ability to compress music on the fly when putting music onto music players like Ipods so that you can get more music onto the player than with just the basic files.

I read a lot of reviews and went for the Sony. It scores better for everything except looks... and tbh who cares? Sonic stage is gone for this for those who asked. Though you didnt have to use sonic stage on the old ones either, heh.

This one I got.


Those who say that there are lots of accessories for Ipods... You can as easy get accessories for phono jacks and mini USB connectors so thats kinda a mute point.

In my house we have two nano's and 20 gig sony , the sony's battery is quality compared with the Ipods' sound quality is ok on them all unless you are a real audiophile . The ipods are better to use through the menu system but the battery life is a winner for me depends what you use it for . Sony's great for holidays .Ipods are cool if your a yoof though .

I think I must be the only person that still uses Sonicstage It took me a while to get used to it but now find it really reliable . Itunes does my head in Its just set up so that apple can dig a bit deeper into your pockets. I cant be ar$ed with it . New sony's drag and drop the way it should be .

you will find that with the sony which i bought couple of sundays ago that you can load on something from the disc which lets you use ITunes anyway.. or windows media player, or drag and drop.. plus if you have a ps3 it works well with that.. and u got the FM radio on there, battery is good... and i would prefer to be a rebel and not get an i pod. and i recommend going on bbc i-Player and getting loads of top gear on there.. memory goes on forever.

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Did someone call????

iRiver did good stuff, Vixis had one, liked it.

For that price bracket I would go with this beauty

Cowon I7

Doesn't do video, but will play for 60 hours on a charge.

If the budget is available, then one of these

Cowon S9

Had got to be the one - AMOLED screen and 55 hours playback.......

I pimp for Cowon because I have one of these

Cowon A3

And its a brilliant piece of kit which is ALSO a great recorder.

Also as you will see, thay will play back almost ANY codec you care to chuck at them - including FLAC and OGG if you dont want to compress your music.

and how many songs for example can you get onto them?

i have a sony now and it's getting a little old and agree that sonic stage software and the replacement connect player are both pretty rubbish, so i'm looking for something better with a fairly large storage capability.

16 gb aint enough for you? i have about 4 gb of listenable music i think... the other 8 is just crappy novelty stuff like the mr bean theme tune. oh yeah you have themes on the sony one and can choose your own wallpaper.. i have cheryl cole on mine!

No more sonic stage now with SONY

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by chris8886

and how many songs for example can you get onto them?

i have a sony now and it's getting a little old and agree that sonic stage software and the replacement connect player are both pretty rubbish, so i'm looking for something better with a fairly large storage capability.

Rule of thumb is 1Mb/Minute of music.

Average Song length = 4 mins (unless you are a Meatloaf fan......)

So 4Mb/Song

that means 250 songs/Gb

So 1000 songs for every 4 gig.

Time wise that equates to over 16 hours/gig - so 64 hours for the 4 gig = 2.5 days.

So the Cowon with the 60 hour battery life can only play 4Gb of music between charges.

My thoughts on MP3 Player capacity is that 8Gb is probably plenty, its not that big a job move stuff about and more than that and you can't find what you want to listen to on it.

I dont see the point in carrying my complete MP3 collection around.

That said I would go for a bigger device and use the extra space for moving files around - ie portable hard-drive mode